The Brave Pedestrian

Mumbai, 7th July, 2018: I wrote an article yesterday disclosing the consent terms signed by Sapphire Welfare Association (SWA) with Bhagtani bulders. *(In case you haven't read it, click here and read it first.) Until we got our hands on these consent terms two days ago and placed it in the public domain, it was a closely guarded secret.  If consent terms is a straightforward deal, why didn't SWA announce their achievement immediately? Why were there only cryptic references such as "It is time to buy the mithai, but don't distribute it". Why keep it secret? The reason is: the consent terms are a great escape for Bhagtanis. They seek to give a clean chit and easy exit from the Sapphire cases to the absconding builders. Obvious issues in the consent terms : 1) If fugitives evading Indian judiciary sign an agreement in India through their power-of-attorney, what is its legal validity?  The consent terms signed by Diipesh Bhagtani in jail, on behalf of J...

Mumbai, 6th July, 2018: When the Sapphire Welfare Association (SWA) enrolled members and filed its Civil Suit/Plaint in Bombay High Court in a rush-rush hush-hush manner, the victims of Bhagtani Sapphire were split into two groups: (1) those who believed that their intent was genuinely to help the victims and (2) those who believed that their intent was to help the Bhagtanis get their criminal cases quashed, by giving the victims a lollipop.  My personal belief (based on my one year's experience of how Bhagtani's stooges manipulate people's minds through Whatsapp groups) is that the intention was solely to help Bhagtanis to come out of their legal troubles. I believe that gullible victims were drawn into the association by showing them them false hopes and dreams. And I believe that the consent terms signed between Bhagtani and SWA on 26th July, based on which the plaint before Bombay High Court was withdrawn, is fraudulent.  Through these consent terms, Bhagtani'...

Read the first-person account of Dr John Paul, an expat who nurtured dreams of gifting a flat to each of his two daughters. To his great misfortune, he was lured into booking two flats in Bhagtani Sapphire at Dahisar. His dreams were dashed to the ground, and his wife's sister also got cheated in the bargain.  Bhagtani Sapphire in Dahisar East, an SRA project of Jaycee Construction Company, was first marketed via several agents who were either company employees or contracted on a commission-basis. They were vigorously convincing people to buy their flats. Many estate agents across Mumbai also issued pamphlets outside places of worship with luring offers and hard-selling words like, “Your Dream house is just 3 years away!” One such pamphlet led me to enquire more, since I had just sold some property in Naigaon and needed to make an investment in estate, as per the rules for taxation, before I could go back to work abroad in a few days. Sadly, the promises of the...

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